Mithridates I Ctistes was the founder of the kingdom of Pontus in Anatolia.
Background
Mithridates is said to have been of the same age as Demetrios Poliorketes, which means he was born in the mid-330s Bachelor of Civil Engineering. In 302 or 301 British Columbia, shortly after having executed the young man"s kinsman (possibly his father or grandfather) and predecessor Mithridates of Cius, the diadoch Antigonus became suspicious of the son who had inherited the family dominion of Cius, and planned to kill the boy.
Career
He was joined by numerous bodies of troops from different quarters and gradually extended his dominions in Pontus and created the foundations for the birth of a new kingdom, which may be judged to have risen about 281 Bachelor of Civil Engineering when Mithridates assumed the title of basileus (king). In the same year, we find him concluding an alliance with the town of Heraclea Pontica in Bithynia, to protect it against Seleucus. At a subsequent period, Mithridates is found acquiring support from the Gauls (who later settled in Asia Minor) in order to overthrow a force sent against him by Ptolemy, king of Egypt.
These are the recorded events of his reign, which lasted for thirty-six years.
He seems to have been buried in a royal grave near the kingdom"s capital, Amasia. Next to him would be buried all the kings of Pontus until the fall of Sinope in 183 Bachelor of Civil Engineering. According to Appian, he was eighth in descent from the first satrap of Pontus under Darius the Great and sixth in ascending order from Mithridates Eupator.
However, this point is controversial since Plutarch writes that eight generations of kings of Pontus stemmed from him before Roman subjection.